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Remedial sealant & repairs in Maldon, Essex
Remedial sealant for Maldon, by sealant specialists with 20+ years’ experience. 180+ five-star Google reviews and a 4.9 rating.
- Black mould underneath the bead
- Decorators’ caulk around a bath or shower
- Over-sealed joints coming away
Keeping the joints in good condition
Good habits help new joints last longer. A few tips:
- Act on a lifting corner straight away
- Keep bleach and abrasives off the bead
- Report a tray that rocks or a worktop that lifts
- Get the cause of a repeat leak found before resealing
Do not let anyone seal over it later. Over-sealing is how many remedial jobs start.
Don’t keep resealing the same joint. Get the cause found first, or the next bead will go the same way.
Remedial sealant for homes and businesses in Maldon
If a joint has been resealed and is leaking again, it’s worth a proper look. It helps to have pictures when you phone 0345 464 0079 or drop us an email, along with when it was last resealed. We work on expansion joints, failed movement joints and shrunken worktop sealant, and people most often call us about dark patches showing through the sealant and gaps opening along the back of the worktop.
Around Maldon, it’s mostly busy family bathrooms and kitchens, which is hard on sealant and grout. The usual signs are mould in the bead, gaps by the sink and grout that’s cracked or stained.
The work is covered for a year after we finish. If anything isn’t right with it, call 0345 464 0079 or drop us an email.
Remedial sealant around Maldon
Maldon is close to the coast. Coastal homes, holiday lets and guest houses can see heavy bathroom use in busy months, and sealant and grout that work that hard wear out sooner. Maldon has hotels and guest accommodation nearby. Hotel bathrooms are part of our work as well as homes, and can be done room by room.
If you look after a building such as Maldon Primary School, washroom and kitchen sealant there needs the same care as at home, and schools and businesses are part of our work as well as homes.
Maldon is about 15 miles south-west of Colchester, in Essex. If you need remedial sealant in Maldon, please call 0345 464 0079 or email us for a quick quote. We cover Essex from our Crawley base. Maldon is one of 644 places in Essex we cover for remedial sealant. Chelmsford is on our list too, about 8 miles from Maldon.
Jobs for remedial sealant in CM9, CM3, CM0 and CM8 works the same way as everywhere else we cover. If you need remedial sealant at a property on High Street, Market Hill and Brooke Square or a nearby road, our applicators can take on the job. With the A414 and B1010 close by, Maldon is easy for our applicators to reach. We also cover Heybridge (1 mile north), Langford (2 miles north-west), Curling Tye Green (2 miles west), Broad Street Green (2 miles north) and Hazeleigh (3 miles south-west). Further out, we also cover Colchester (15 miles north-east), Chelmsford (8 miles west), Basildon (14 miles south-west), Braintree (12 miles north-west), Canvey Island (15 miles south) and Billericay (13 miles south-west). As one of the bigger places in Essex, Maldon has homes, rented property and businesses of every kind.
Around Maldon
Locally, jobs take us to homes and businesses close to Plume School, Plume Library and The Ship And Anchor Public House. Other landmarks nearby include Maldon & District Agricultural & Domestic Museum (3.6 miles north-east). The countryside around Maldon includes Maldon Wick.
What sealant work can’t fix
We’ll always be straight with you, so here’s what new sealant won’t do:
- Cracks in the fitting rather than the joint
- Water damage behind tiles that needs a tiler
- Sealant in an older building that needs testing for asbestos first
If in doubt, phone 0345 464 0079 or email us and we’ll say what we think.
Joints and surfaces we work on
- Shrunken worktop sealant
- Botched or over-sealed joints
- Mouldy bath & shower sealant
- Expansion joints
- Failed movement joints
- Leaking tray & enclosure joints
Places near Maldon
Other services in Maldon
What happens if it’s left?
A failed seal rarely means a new bathroom. When the fittings are sound, stripping and resealing the joints is often enough. If they’re not, we’ll tell you. In a family home in Maldon, a failed seal around a bath or a frame lets water into places you can’t see, like the floor under a bath, the back of a panel or the inside of a wall. Whatever the joint, failed sealant only gets worse.
What it costs depends on how much there is to do, how much old material has to come out and access to the work. You will have a clear quote before any work starts.
Why us?
- Tidy, careful work
- Colour agreed with you before work begins
- Anti-fungal silicone where joints get wet
- A sealant colour to suit the surroundings
Read what affects the cost or our reviews.
DIY versus a professional finish
Overfilling a joint is a classic DIY mistake. A heavy bead looks messy and copes badly with movement, and the joint depth matters as much as the finish.
Sealing over old silicone is the commonest DIY error. New silicone will not bond to old, so it peels away and traps moisture behind it. All the old material has to come out first.
For landlords and businesses
If you manage several properties in or around Maldon, several properties can be quoted together. Send us the addresses and the work at each, and photos by email help.
Businesses can book us for washrooms, kitchens, offices and more. For commercial premises, we can talk through working times when we quote.
Questions from Maldon
Do you take on hotel work around Maldon?
Yes. Hotel and guest-house work is part of what we do. Work can be planned room by room, and out-of-hours working can be arranged.
Do you cover Maldon for remedial sealant?
Yes. We work across London and the South East, and Maldon is part of that. You can call 0345 464 0079 or drop us an email and let us know what needs doing.
Are you insured?
Yes. Mr Mastic is fully insured, with over 20 years’ experience in sealant work.
Which products do you use?
Quality sealants from brands including Arbo and Everbuild, chosen to suit the joint. We will tell you what we’re using and why.
Do you hold any approvals?
Yes. We are an ARBOMaster approved applicator.
Do you fix expansion and movement joints?
Yes. We cut out the failed sealant, fit backing and reseal with a flexible product.
Will it make a mess?
Tidy work is part of the job. Nearby surfaces are protected, and the area is left clean when we finish.
Does remedial work come with a guarantee?
Yes. Every job comes with our 12-month guarantee.
The process
On the day, there’s very little for you to do. Show us the job and we will take it from there. The work itself takes a few hours for a typical bath or shower, longer where several layers have been applied, including the tidy-up. A visit in Maldon needs access to the work and a place to park close by. For outside work, let us know about side access, gates and any upper-floor joints.
- First we work out whether the problem is the sealant, movement or a leak.
- Each layer is cut out and the residue cleaned off.
- We treat any mould and dry the joint thoroughly.
- We reseal with a product suited to the joint, backed where needed.
- The joint is tooled and you are told about anything else we found.
Before we arrive
- Clear the area around the work
- For indoor joints, keep the area dry beforehand if you can
- Mention if the joints have been sealed before
Get a quote
Asking for a quote is easy: let us know the job and the location and its rough size. A few photos by email make the job easier to understand, and we’ll take it from there.
Related advice
Common problems we fix in Maldon
Silicone only bonds to surfaces that are clean and dry. Soap film, dust, damp or old residue stop it gripping, and the joint starts to come away early.
Common reasons people contact us are:
- Sealant applied over old sealant that has lifted
- Repeat leaks from the same joint
- Worktop sealant that has shrunk and split
- Thick, messy sealant smeared over tiles
Homes close to Church of St Mary include some older properties, and walls and floors in older homes can move, and sealant and grout show it first.
What to look for in a quote
- What happens if the job turns out different
- What product goes in the joint
- Whether they’re fully insured
- The length of the guarantee